Authentic assessment is the process of gathering evidence and documenting a student’s learning and growth in an authentic context. Authentic assessment, unlike traditional assessment, is used to evaluate the individual student.

Our brains have an alarm system that works all on its own. It is called the amygdala, and when the amygdala fires off its alarm system we tend to listen. Which is great if we are actually in a fire, or actually being chased by a large wild animal, or actually our life is indeed in danger! However, for the most part, often our amygdala fires when we are NOT in any real kind of danger. For instance:
Talking to a person we don’t know, is NOT life threatening.
Ordering a meal in a restaurant, is NOT life threatening.
Writing a test, is NOT life threatening.
Making eye contact with someone, is NOT life threatening.
However, when we have anxiety our brain activates our amygdala and we respond with body sensations and thoughts that make us believe they just might be! The amygdala is a small almond shaped organ in our brain that processes our memory, our decision-making response and our emotional responses. It is part of our nervous system, and all too often it is working over-time.
To handle worry and anxiety we need to teach our brain to NOT turn on the alarm system. (The best part about a brain is that it is very capable of changing the way it thinks! This is called neuroplasticity.). We need to tell our brain:
- I am willing to feel UNcomfortable.
- I am willing to feel unsure and to NOT know what might happen next.
- I am willing to use my courage and do what I might not want to do.
- I can handle it if things do not go just perfect.
- I am okay with NOT knowing how things are going to turn out.
By saying this in our mind and by doing this we can change the response our brain makes. It will take time and constant repetition…but it can be accomplished. We can actually make a new neuropathway in our brain so that it no longer ‘fires up panic’ when we do things. It is like making a new walking path across the grass. Eventually, if we stay on the same new path, the old one fills in and a new path begins to appear.

The following is a poster on "What a Good Listener, Reader, Viewer does Before/During/ After Listening, Reading and Viewing".

The following are three posters on "What Good Speakers, Writers and Presenters do Before/During/After Speaking, Writing and Presenting".

Un recueil de matériel pour le soutien de tout.e élève, en considérant les diverses forces et besoins de chacun.e. Le tout est en français. Niveau scolaire: 1ere à 9e année.

Collections proposées:

-Le point de vue de l'élève: « Utilisez les formulaires de cette section pour recueillir des renseignements sur vos élèves. »

-Le point de vue des parents: « Utilisez les formulaires de cette section pour orienter les discussions avec les parents ou encore comme outils pour recueillir des renseignements sur vos élèves, aux fins de planification. »

-Français: « Cette section contient les grilles d’évaluation en fonction du niveau scolaire pour l’écriture, l’exposé, l’écoute, l’interaction et le travail avec les autres élèves. »

-Mathématiques*: « Cette section comprend des grilles d’évaluation en fonction du niveau scolaire sur les notions mathématiques relatives au sens du nombre. »

-Participation à la vie sociale et comportement: « Utilisez les stratégies, les appuis à l’enseignement et les outils de planification contenus dans cette section pour améliorer la participation sociale des élèves » (comprend des gabarits de plans individualisés de renforcement du comportement)

-Information sur les conditions médicales et les incapacités: « Certains élèves peuvent présenter plus d'une condition médicale ou plus d'une incapacité; de ce fait, il sera primordial que les enseignants les considèrent comme un tout lorsqu'ils détermineront les stratégies et les appuis nécessaires. »

-Exemples de gabarits pour les plans d'intervention*

-Stratégies et appuis à l'enseignement: Universels, visés & spécialisés

-Technologies d'apprentissage: Information à l'intention des enseignant.e.s

-Perfectionnement professionel*: « Cette section contient des exemples d'activités d'apprentissage professionnel qui peuvent être effectuées à l'école ou dans l’autorité scolaire afin d'approfondir les connaissances des enseignants sur la planification de la réussite pour chaque élève de la classe. »

*Plusieurs liens dans cette section ne sont pas à date.

A PowerPoint for Black History Month Year 3 - Year 6 lessons
This informative PowerPoint is great to support your teaching in Black History Month Year 3 - Year 6 lessons.

It contains detailed information on why and when it's celebrated. Plus, you'll find lots of important information on the topic and profiles of significant Black people like Nelson Mandela, Mary Seacole, Barack Obama, and others.

Black History Month is an essential topic, so use this KS2 resource to educate children from Year 3 onwards.

(You will have to sign up for an account with twinkl to access the resource. There are free and paid versions of twinkl.)

Included are the support materials for Grade 2 Blended Learning Math - Unit 1 Lesson 1 - Numbers to 100:

YouTube video on counting by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's to 100.
Manipulatives and Templates to support Lesson 1
Assessment and Evaluation for Unit 1

Your blog project is intended to serve several purposes and fill many objectives:

Purposes:

To express your personal responses to projects and learning that occurs throughout the course
To make connections between classroom learning and your own experiences
To reflect on learning opportunities in the classroom
To share your ideas and thoughts an audience – peers, parents, community (local/global)
To share your voice about issues and topics related to this course
To link to websites and sources with related materials
Objectives:

Share and present ideas
Make connections
Reflect on learning
Demonstrate respectful communication in an online environment

This resource from U of Waterloo suggests learning activities and assessments for the different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Ideas are grouped by:
Cognitive
Affective
Physical
Psychomotor

Creating
arrange, blend, deduce, devise, construct, create, design, present, rearrange, rewrite, synthesize, write

Evaluating
appraise, argue, award, critique, defend, interpret, judge, measure, select test, verify

Analyzing
Classify, compare, contrast, test, distinguish, determine, form, generalizations, categorize, illustrate, select, survey, transform

Applying
Choose, convert, determine, demonstrate, differentiate, discover, discuss, examine, experiment, prepare, produce, record, use

Understanding
classify, describe, demonstrate, discriminate, fill in, find, identify, outline, predict, represent, trace

Remembering
acquire, define, lable, list, match, read, recall, retrieve, recognize, state

This is a group project I use when teaching body systems in grade 5. Each group is assigned a specific body system to research, write about, create a diagram, and then present to the class. Once all groups have presented to the class, I give each student a test, to assess how much information they understood.

Book Studies can be done as independent or in-class activities. Some teachers designate one day per week in class to read the book they have assigned, while others create a reading schedule. Various projects and assignments are suggested here to help the students and teachers learn from the book they have read. One thing is for sure.. there are a lot of excellent financial books for students to read and learn from! 

This task allows the students to create a family’s cash flow budget based on their current situation, analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to their household budget, and give the family some financial advice.The assignment also asked the students various planning questions regarding family budgets, events that affect the budget and variables to consider when a household plans their budgets.

Criteria for Historical Thinking Very well To some extent To a limited degree Not at all Not
applicable
Student begins analyzing a primary source by asking basic sourcing questions, for example:
– Who was the author/creator?
– When was the source produced?
– Who is the audience?

CK-12 Life Science for Middle School FlexBook® covers core life science concepts and includes real world examples, videos, and PLIX (which stands for Play, Learn, Interact, and eXplore—offers learners an interactive and immersive experience exploring concepts).
ck12.org

This is an extremely comprehensive unit on Diversity and Living Things. Some of the chapters are not aligned directly with grade 6 outcomes, but have the potential to be used for enrichment activities. In addition to what is listed above, this resource also includes online practice quizzes for students. Teachers can download printable versions of the quizzes, along with an answer key.
*You will have to sign up to ck12.org to access everything, but it is completely free!

The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), founded in 1918, is one of the oldest voluntary organizations in Canada. Each year, we provide services and supports to more than 1.3 million Canadians through the combined efforts of more than 11,000 volunteers and staff across Canada in over 330 communities.
As the nationwide leader and champion for mental health, CMHA facilitates access to the resources people require to maintain and improve mental health and community integration, build resilience, and support recovery from mental illness.
CMHA branches across Canada provide a wide range of innovative services and supports to people who are experiencing mental illness and their families. These services are tailored to the needs and resources of the communities where they are based. One of the core goals of these services is to help people with mental illness develop the personal tools to lead meaningful and productive lives.

« La littératie médiatique est cruciale dans la société contemporaine. CTRL-F s'agit d'un programme CANADIEN de CIVIX. Il fournit :

-Des ressources (y compris des leçons complètes et des évaluations)
-Une banque d'exemples
-Des ateliers

Vous devriez vous inscrire (compte gratuit) pour accéder à ce programme excellent.

«Les informations fausses et trompeuses se multiplient sur le Web et les internautes ne disposent pas forcément des connaissances et des aptitudes nécessaires pour savoir à quoi ils peuvent se fier. Pour former la prochaine génération de citoyens informés, nous devons adopter de nouvelles méthodes d’enseignement en matière de littératie des médias numériques et d’évaluation des sources.»»

Water is a limited resource that we use over and over again. The idea is to teach the science behind the water cycle, where water comes from and is located on the Earth. After research and developing and understanding of conservation students will create a water tower that will collect and store rainwater. Students will also create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on water conservation.

Applicable for Grades 3–6 and Grades 7–12.

The lesson plans in Treaties and the Treaty Relationship: Educator’s Guide are framed on the Historical Thinking Concepts and offer teachers interactive instructional approaches that foster engaged student inquiry. They are fortified with maps, weblinks, and supporting Blackline Masters.

Lesson plan themes explore Treaties across Canada from time immemorial to the present, making a concerted link between the past and the future.

As well, each learning activity offers adaptions and/or activities based on the lesson theme for exploring Treaties in grades three to six.

It is with the greatest appreciation that we thank the many contributors and supporters of the Treaties and Treaty Relationship: Educator’s Guide.

Go to the website to download the pdf package.

Multiple Choice, Matching, & Short Answer Summative Assessment. Cover's branches of Federal Government, Parliament, Rights & Freedoms, Constitution Act